How The Tariff Affects The Farmers

The exporta of wheat from British India are steadily on the increase, and the government is engaged is constructing a railway to aiTonl an out let for a grat interior wheat district which has never yet been able to get its prodncts to the seaboard. These facts are highly dÍ9couraging to American farmers. The aotivity of the Indiau government in spending millions to open up the vast wheat raising sections of the empire is due to the fact tliat Englishmen prefer to trade with countries that buy as well as sell. Commerce to be mutually advantageous must be unfettered. iShut out from American markets, the London and Liverpool merchants buy just as little of us as they possibly can. The purchase of American wheat abroad has steadily fallen off in consequence. This is another forcible illustration of the ruinous eñects of our high tariffs. They cut both ways. They add enormously to the cost of what the agrioulturist has to buy and cut down the price of what he has to